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https://creativecommons.org/2009/08/17/wiki-milestones-and-mania/#commentsMon, 17 Aug 2009 17:30:28 +0000http://creativecommons.org/?p=16946Photo by Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA ReadWriteWeb* writes that English Wikipedia just passed the 3 million article mark. While this is a great accomplishment that will surely be widely reported, RWW correctly highlights that “Wikipedia” is much more than the English site: The family of sites as a whole has more than 13 million … Read More "Wiki* milestones and mania"

Numbers alone are impressive enough and hint that Wikipedia has blown up the encyclopedia category and that other wiki projects will supersede other existing categories of cultural and educational artifact. However, the numbers only begin to tell the story. One place to see this unfold in highly concentrated form is Wikimania, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. See the conference schedule, including panels featuring CC France and CC Taiwan co-founders Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Shun-ling Chen (Authorship, Licenses, and the Wiki Borg) and me (OER Content Interoperability for WikiMedia platforms).

]]>https://creativecommons.org/2009/08/17/wiki-milestones-and-mania/feed/116946Inside track on the future of free content licenseshttps://creativecommons.org/2006/08/09/insidetrackonthefutureoffreecontentlicenses/
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:02:21 +0000https://blog.creativecommons.org/2006/08/09/insidetrackonthefutureoffreecontentlicenses/If you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes) and Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and the Future of Free … Read More "Inside track on the future of free content licenses"